My Systems Page

There is a custom on many of the PC performance sites to post your
system specifications in your signature. I have been reluctant to do
this for reasons that will soon become clear. Instead, I have this page
that list each of my systems with their peripherals in decreasing order
of when I build them. Thus, the newest system will always be at the
top for you to see first.

Wimpy was an impulse buy I made when a friend
told me about upcoming BP6. From what I can tell, Wimpy's page was one of
the first BP6 reviews on the net. Wimpy consists of an Abit BP6 motherboard
with two 400 MHz celerons, 64mb generic ram, a
buslogic bt-958 scsi card, an IBM
DHFSS2W hard drive, a Matshita CR-8005A scsi cdrom, a generic DS21140 Tulip
LAN card and some old ISA VGA card I had lying around finish the system in a
SuperMicro SC750 case. Wimpy runs linux and is my play machine.

The family computer was built by
HiTech USA to my specifications
based on reviews on the net.
I have been building computers for over 20 years and my wife still blames
the system I built every time windows locks up. So I paid a local clone
shop a few bucks extra to have them assemble it. The system consists of
an Asus P2B with 128 meg of ram, a seagate 4gig hard drive, a generic
S3 Trio AGP video card and a Memorex CDROM in a generic case. It has a
Viewsonic 17GA monitor with built in speakers that I absolutely love.

My Windows web station is a hand-me-down from the family computer
that I built several years ago based on reviews on the net. It is the
one that kept locking up on my wife but now serves me just fine.
It consists of an Asus TX5 motherboard, an AMD K6-266 @ 300, 2 x 32meg
PC66 SDRAM, a Seagate 4 gig boot drive, and IBM 13 gig data drive and
a generic IDE CD drive. It has an Adaptec 2930u scsi card driving a
Phillips CDD2000 cd burner, an external SCSI zip and a Microtech
digital photo album pcmcia reader. A generic pci video card, a generic
sound card and a Netgear FA310 lan card round out the system.

Standby is my home server. It is another hand-me-down from the
family computer that we bought from Belmont Computer Proucts many years
ago. It and consists of a Gold Star MP064 Triton motherboard, Pentium 120
cpu, 32 meg FP ram, 32 meg EDO ram, an adaptec 1542 ISA scsi card with
a quantum LPS340S system drive and a seagate ST43400N full height 5 1/4
data drive. A Headlands Technology 1024i ISA video card and a 3com
3c509-combo nic complete this system in a generic case. It runs linux
and provides DNS and mail routing for the house.

My router is pieces of computers I found in the garage. It is
a 486/33 in some funky VLB motherboard with a VLB video card, a mix
of 72 and 36 pin memory, an old maxtor 7456AT hard drive and a NE clone
lan card complete this system in a generic full tower AT case. It currently
dials a US Robotics Sportster 14,400 fax modem on demand and provides
NAT and firewall services for the house. I am waiting for my DSL to
get installed at which time I will add another LAN card to this router
and let it continue its job.

Albert is my public web/mail server that is hiding under a workbench at
my parents house on their DSL. It consists of a generic TX motherboard,
an AMD K5/166 cpu with 16 meg of ram, a seagate ST34310A 4 gig ide hard
drive and 3com 3c509 net card in a generic 29 dollar frys special
minitower case. An APC UPS provides power regulation for this system
which has currently shows an uptime of 223 days.

Other systems in various states of decay include an Ampro littleboard
Z80 system I used extensively in college and Blue Baby, an Imsai 8080
I bought as a kit from the original Byte Shop in 1978. I still turn it
on every few years just to watch the blinking lights.